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Lake Boga granite quarry, Lake Boga, Victoria, Australia

An operating granite quarry 10km SSW of Lake Boga (17 km S of Swan Hill). Phosphates and uranium minerals occur in miarolitic voids. Pegmatite veins are common.

View of the Eastern wall of Lake Boga Quarry, 2003




References:
- Birch, W. D., Mumme, W. G. & Segnit, E. R. (1988): Ulrichite: a new copper calcium uranium phosphate from Lake Boga, Victoria, Australia. Australian Mineral. 3 (3), 125-131.
- Henry, D. A. and Birch, W. D. (1988): Sampleite and associated minerals from the Lake Boga granite quarry, Victoria, Australia. Austral. Mineral. 3, 135-148.
- Birch, W. D. (1993): Phosphate minerals in granite rocks. In Phosphate Minerals of Victoria. (Birch, W.D. and Henry, D.A., Eds). Special Publication N°3, The Mineralogical Society of Victoria, 5-39.
- Birch, W. D. (1996): Portlandite and other recent mineral discoveries in the granites at Lake Boga, Wycheproof and Pyramid Hill, Victoria. Australian J. of Mineralogy 2 (2), 47-50.
- Birch, B., Pring, A., Kolitsch, U. (1999) Bleasdaleite, (Ca,Fe 3+)2Cu5(Bi, Cu)(PO4)4(H2O,OH,Cl)13, a new mineral from Lake Boga, Victoria, Australia. Australian Journal of Mineralogy: 5: 69-75.
- Mills, S. J. (2004) Metanatroautunite (‘sodium autunite’) from the Lake Boga Granite, Victoria, Australian Journal of Mineralogy, 10 (1), 29–31.
- Mills, S. J., Birch, W. D., Maas, R., Phillips, D. & Plimer, I. R. (2008) Lake Boga Granite, northwestern Victoria: mineralogy, geochemistry and geochronology, Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 55(3), 281–299.
- Mills, S. J., Birch, W. D., Kolitsch, U., Mumme, W. G. & Grey, I. E. (2008) Lakebogaite, CaNaFe3+2H(UO2)2(PO4)4(OH)2(H2O)8, a new uranyl phosphate with a unique crystal structure from Victoria, Australia, American Mineralogist, 93(4), 691–697.
- Birch, W. D. (2008) Victoria's Uranium secret, Australasian Science Magazine, September, 22-24.
- Mills, S. J., Birch, W. D., Kolitsch, U. & Sejkora, J. (2008) Kunatite, CuFe3+2(PO4)2(OH)2.4H2O, a new member of the whitmoreite group from Lake Boga, Victoria, Australia, Australian Journal of Mineralogy, 14(1), 3–12.

- http://www.crocoite.com/deeplead/lakeboga.htm.





Map Reference: 35°33'8"S , 143°34'31"E

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Mineral List:
Albite
Anatase
Apatite-(CaF)
var: Carbonate-rich Apatite-(CaF)
Atacamite
Azurite
Beryl
Biotite
Bismuth
Bleasdaleite (TL)
Cacoxenite
Chalcanthite
Chalcocite
Chalcopyrite
Chalcosiderite
Cheralite
Chlorargyrite
'Chlorite Group'
Chrysocolla
Connellite
Copper
Covellite
Crandallite
Cyrilovite
Digenite
Djurleite
Ferberite
Fluorite
Geerite
Hematite
Iodargyrite
Kaolinite
Kidwellite
Kunatite (TL)
Lakebogaite (TL)
Leucophosphite
Libethenite
Limonite
Malachite
Meta-autunite
Metanatroautunite
Meurigite-Na
Microcline
Molybdenite
Monazite-(Ce)
Muscovite
Natrodufrénite
Nontronite
Opal
var: Opal-AN
Orthoclase
Portlandite
Pseudomalachite
Pseudorutile
Pyrite
Quartz
var: Smoky Quartz
Rockbridgeite
Rutile
Saléeite
Sampleite
Schorl
Siderite
Sphalerite
Strengite
Topaz
Torbernite
Turquoise
Ulrichite (TL)
Unnamed (F-analogue of Schorl)
Uraninite
Variscite
Wavellite


73 entries listed. 66 valid minerals. 4 type localities (valid minerals).

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